A Look At The New Features Of The Linux 4.4 Kernel | Linux Today

A Look At The New Features Of The Linux 4.4 Kernel

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Michael Larabel
Nov 17, 2015

Linux 4.4 is currently around 20.8 million lines or an increase of about 200 thousand lines of code/documentation and a few hundred new files after Linus accepted around 12,000 commits for this merge window. In my close monitoring of the mainline Git code and mailing lists over the past few weeks, the items of Linux 4.4 that have caught my attention include:

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Michael Larabel

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